Sulfurovum

Sulfurovum is a genus within the Campylobacterota which was first described in 2004 with the isolation and description of the type species Sulfurovum lithotrophicum from Okinawa trough hydrothermal sediments.^[1] Named for their ability to oxidize sulfur and their egg-like shape, cells are gram-negative, coccoid to short rods. Mesophilic chemolithoautotrophic growth occurs by oxidation of sulfur compounds coupled to the reduction of nitrate or molecular oxygen.^[1]

Sulfurovum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Campylobacterota
Class:	Epsilonproteobacteria
Order:	Campylobacterales
Family:	Sulfurovaceae
Genus:	Sulfurovum Inagaki et al. 2004 [1]
Type species
Sulfurovum lithotrophicum[2] Inagaki et al. 2004
Species
S. aggregans S. denitrificans S. indicum S. lithotrophicum S. mangrovi S. rifiae "Ca. S. sediminum" "S. xiamenensis" "S. zhangzhouensis"

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)^[3]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[4][5][6]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[7][8][9]
Sulfurovum S. mangrovi Li et al. 2023 S. aggregans Mino et al. 2014 S. denitrificans Mori, Yamaguchi & Hanada 2018 S. indicum Xie et al. 2019 S. lithotrophicum Inagaki et al. 2004 S. rifiae Giovannelli et al. 2016	Sulfurovum "S. zhangzhouensis" Wang et al. 2023 "S. xiamenensis" Wang et al. 2023 S. indicum S. lithotrophicum S. rifiae

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera